Polling Joystick Events in Background is ok?

SDL Development
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I am calling something like this in a Background task in OSX:

while (joystickPollingEnabled) {
SDL_Event e;
while (SDL_PollEvent(&e)) {
joyManager.handleJoystickEvents(&e);
}

	if (joystickPollingEnabled) { // no delay if it need to exit
		SDL_Delay(12);
                    SDL_WaitEventTimeout(NULL, 500);
	}
}

I read on the documentation that I cant do this in a bg thread, but I am currently only using SDL joystick in my app.
And disabled every other event using:

SDL_EventState(SDL_LASTEVENT, SDL_DISABLE);
SDL_JoystickEventState(SDL_ENABLE);

So, it seems to be working…

Is it SAFE?

Thanks